Do the legwork for me!

Multiple browser toolbars used to be the sign of a power user. Sadly, many too many power users were more enamored of their tools than of the information that they might actually use them to find or save. Chrome works from the assumption that most add-ons are rarely used, and instead of offering toolbars seems instead to give us buttons that open the options we want - if and when we actually want them. In a similar manner, Google tries to pre-think us - Google Translate, for instance, is an example of recognizing that a page is in a different language than our default language, and automatically offering to translate it for us. We could have buttons or toolbars for this, but Google seems to prefer to show us that they can guess what we're thinking.



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